Belief in the Hereafter in the Exegetical Traditions of S?rah al-Ra?m?n

Razieh Hasani

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URL :   http://research.shahed.ac.ir/WSR/WebPages/Report/PaperView.aspx?PaperID=84690
Date :  2018/01/10
Publish in :    Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods


Keywords :Exegetical, Traditions

Abstract :

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One of the most important religious teachings which have been continuously noticed in human’s life and is engaged with his final fate is the issue of “Belief in the Hereafter”. After Monotheism (tawḥīd) and Prophecy (nubuwwah), it is an important religious principle which has been considered in the holy Quran and the traditions (ḥadīth) of the Infallibles (Ahlul-Bayt-P.B.U.TH). The Almighty Allah in the holy Quran also places the belief in the Hereafter besides the belief in Himself.Believing in the Hereafter means to have a deep belief in the life after the death. Although eschatology has been noticed through Islamic texts and the scholars’ divine religious writings, they are not free from methodological shortcomings nor are based on the axis of a Sūrah and its narrative interpretations.Thus, the present study is an attempt to recognize the components of eschatology regarding the Sūrah al-Raḥmān. The research methodology is qualitative and of the type of descriptive-documentary one.The case study is textual including the exegetical traditions of the Sūrah al-Raḥmān in the commentaries of Qumī, Furāt Kūfī, al-Burhān by Baḥrānī, Nūr al-Thaqalayn by Ḥuwayzī, and Kanz al-Daqā’iq wa Baḥr al-Qarā’ib by Mashhadī Qumī with a due attention to the questions and objectives of the research. The strategy of analysis is inductive. The main instruments being used in this research has been notes taken from the sources under investigation based on search in the texts. After obtaining results from the exegetical traditions, description and classification of data were made in textual form and in the processing stage, the results were discussed and interpreted. The findings obtained from the components of eschatology in the exegetical traditions of Surah Al-Rahaman encompass the statues of the Hereafter with the sub-element of Hell, occurrence of Resurrection, descriptions of Resurrection, Paradise and its qualities, and the Last Day by the sub-element of the events of Last Day. In conclusion, belief in the Hereafter is connected to the cognitive backgrounds of the man and the growth of awareness. Furthermore, the promotion of rational skills about the human’s final destiny is one of the most penetrating and effective beliefs to orient the human’s behavior and his education and correction.